My Pocket Book; or, Hints for "A Ryghte Merrie and Conceitede" Tour, in quarto; to be called "The Stranger in Ireland" in 1805. By a Knight Errant

£200.00

DUBOIS, Edward (1774-1850) SKU: 21347

London: printed for Ventnor, Hood, and Sharp (et al), 1808.

A new edition. 8vo (18 x 12 cms); pp xxxii, 228; folding aquatint frontispiece and four plates, somewhat browned by offsetting, also titlepage. Contemporary half-calf, rebacked, corners well rounded and worn, edges rubbed. A burlesque on Sir John Carr's "Stranger in Ireland" that resulted in a libel action that the publishers won.